Evening Star Newspaper, September 4, 1921, Page 41

s T G RZINE SECION T ¢ Sundmy Ster, [rewrows | Part 4—6 Pages : WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNIN his ‘» SEPTEMBER 4, 1921. Washington as Great Diplomatic Center of the World Powers BY STERLING HEILIG. capital, her hotels are good. As f PARIS, August 17, 1921. : 2 : : ¥ ¢ : " the meeting place, a number of in- b ; . ternational conferences have been OR nearly three years Amer- e e I _ - . , . M| |neid st the “Pan-American - Union. : i i whicl 8 very commodious for such in Parls have been on rush and o i . 4 ; purposes. Some have been held in e quu,_l . & . . o 3 v . Contiental Hall of the Daughters of § i : i . - L the Revolution. Others have been ble British diplomacy has been put-; 2l o g / held_in th ditori y s e 3 . . ¢ ; . _in the auditorium of the N: ting up to Frengh diplomacy, and vice . / o . . e . 7 b tional Museum. All three are new versa. - : A% ’ § - . buildings, beautiful and.modern. London correspondents were In the S - o “ - 5 . ’ . 4 2 (oAlo: at 8 conference of Washin- ‘ . : ; 1 y 4 L 7 . 7 ; on, they will accomplish something same predicament. And Belglan : ¢ i : 1 R ¥ s . s —in itself, he says, a novelty! Itallans and all the others had come . : i P ; i st e e “The distinctly businessfike fa to consider after-war diplomacy as a . > L - B , cliities of Washington wiil ‘make it - Pacia : B e 3 7 3 2 possible for the conference to move sort of boxing match between Parl e < # 7A with dispatch, which is more than and London. : Lo y . R - Fil | could be said of the late conferences Now, President Harding has lssued i 4 3 1 B ¥ § 8 2 of Europe. That of Versailies never his convocation for an internatiomal ot ” ' % ¥ g®s ended. o ; L . . A ¢ t . &8 “When Victor Cambon returned to conference at Washington and the S : g ¢ 5 E 4 : . B | Paris from his Washingon trip he ex- -situation suddenly bocomes clear. pressed particular astonishment and . “A struggle has been going on since| |. . o . 1 B G v ’ admiration for the departments’ facil- the armistice for the diplomatic suprem- P . . 3 . R A a e acy of Europe,” says my clear-seeing 3 " 3 B * ‘3 s 2%l ¥ § 0 v without delay, freedom to see func- e ot S : e . £ : tlonaries and state your business, iib- e e e : . , " erty to £o and come without interfer- the American Pres / : i ) , ; ence of ushers in silver meck chains. away from a natural but dangerous . Pl Ll ! / o \ L Al this admiration, be summed up in _ ¥ ; three luminous words: ‘The swivel rivalry of cities—Paris and London— a : Babl ] . = ! | chais: 2 %, * % Xx x EN I was United States judge in favor of a third city, Washington, which is, by its nature, blameless, re- - [ at Panama* says Duras, I saw in miniature this rivalry of citics assuring, healing.” which is diplomatically threatening * ¥ k¥ “F['HE man who sees this, over here, the allies. There had been three at- itempts, down there, to bring about is a Washingtonian and citizen the federation of Central America. All of the world, who represented New York state at the original dedication of the Palace of Peace at The Hague.| i { p 1 g » et % # fatled by rivalry of cit He is Victor Hugo Duras, now in Paris i A S ; Their zood will was complete—like a for his new work on S |0 o ) E o that of London and Paris. But- gathering dat: i & v ¥ “Three times constitutions were "Amflhlory of An‘x;:‘lf:; sfl‘::";:yg'e - S SR . : i st i ; aflomed‘; but when it came to locating 2 r. Duras was. the capital in any one state the whole ; at Panama at the age of twenty-five, THE FRENCH EMBASSY. ‘ THE ITALIAN EMBASSY. cunfed'erzhl:o? il ) by bes- e - (Photo by Harris & Ewing.) son of the fear that such a promi- and the youngest government judl = = (Photo by Harris & Ewlng.) nence of any one of their cities would * ciary official at the time. In 1910 he il e make ita siate supreme over iis Tel- ie brochure on “The ks ashing |lows. First, they wanted Salvador, wrote his prophet fact. Panama has a dispute with Costa{ ;"0 G0 ool §g small. Never- —_— - > ton, because they have come to dread ' . i ed that o =k . . Ri -and th led th th s o Worid/Wax : in whjch hoistater (B! drepanderaling contar in Emw—l S IERLING HEILIG, The Sunday Star's Special Corresponden‘t in France, Inter- I dny™ 15 Beoratary Wignen, Hia feply (hlens, L nan, oblteted (o e the kaiser would strike against Eu- | either Paris or London : : : Tope before the third peace confer-| Paris, by reason of her geographical qd not Jack savour Bt . YoU|Subsequently, there was a judicial BT IO e Yot shomid mot | union, which made San Jose, capital e of The Hague, which was to|position, the genius of her people, their & ‘]' H R o= S & . > /e U . S i h have been held in 1915. riches and the use of the French lan- views Victor ugo ,Duras egardlng electlon Of Capxtal Of the mted tates | |his answer. Therefore vou should potiof Costa Rica, the judicial center. Noving attended The Hague dedica- | guage in diplomacy. was the true dip- come fo'me with your differences, buc|of, Costa it fhe Judleial cenicr tion for Sew York stafe where he nad | lomatic center of Butope w> 2 3810 | 35 Location of Disarmament Conference——All Smaller Powers Look With Hope to | |2 dssisien you et serect to] RLerS) feace'ae The Hasue. work Sewea for the appointment as vice |mained greater than might be imag siand or fall. You have appealed to|Palace of Peace at The Hague. Work 3 8 7 | ined. - . A B Caessr—s0, to Caesar go ye But | was begun, but even the elements Sonsul at Licke. 1% a'Liege auring | P : Washington, Because They Dread a Preponderating Center in Europe—The City, their spontaneous movement was to|Were against it—an earthquake over as slightl: S e Ao e NSIDER only our own diplomatic g0 to Washington turned all! And, now, I am inclined i e i the warid e “c2 conferences since 1870," he says- Geographically‘ IS One Good Rqason for Its Selecntion_Where Great Conferenc es The objection that Washington is|to believe that the Central American across the ocean from Europe is an-union, which they have agreed on, sequently ordered to Petrograd, Whence. | ., Bering strait conference was fn the end, he was almost the first swered by the fact that she is not so | Will fail like manner, unless for far across the ocean from China and great affairs they can shift the Japan as Burope is. ue—— “The wayfthings are shaping out, ‘o Washington?” I interrupted. J e et e | oF e Duae Wers FLIAPhe Conteal WoeldDorss l &T?};fii’:‘u‘:&g’ e e can wnrp:::; u:‘tled mfn. 1:;:1:!” or ot the Fast ere <. e Uentra, or. osition. 5 in general, makes Washington quiti €8, to Washington, the fair, calm He is a doctor °{, ‘“:"- :3“’",‘:.“.:’;;_ any ofer European city, but by the — - s .- S, = T o% Sentral’a world position as Paris!capital that has mo fear of being ence at a number of e al Interest | congress of Paris. Now that the|est today—in the matter of the lan-| or London. The facilities for ocean 'dominatgd, no desire to dominate, re- ferences gives him a special in . Soday-iolthe matter ot = E . of the Atlantic, the specialists re-ltravel are such as to make the dis-|moved ftom European passions. yet ¢ in'this subject, whichiis 8o close £0 weight:of 1870 s taken {rom France, ke Spanish dclcgates had signed| I YT e (3 Tmere—— main London, with the public (ance negligible, and the trip of five | the capital of a country wherein all the heart and pride of every Ameri-| g, 1anq herself fears the preponder-|with the Americans an article con- ¢ & or seven days makes but a needful |races and nationalities are centered! A ashington Is becoming the diplo-[ance of Baris—all in a businesslike fceding the “control" of the Philip- 4 b A 'h:";om:"gsg relaxation for the minds of diplo- | We h;\\el pm:od ;he posslg:’:m:u:: - v: Y L3 > { center of sovere! & matia contor of the world.” says Nr.|and friendly way, but the rivalry ls{pines fo the United States. Almost| { . & . N B . Vet for 2,000 years the gold-dealing | "ar s Washingtonian, he repeats the | lving in harmony {ogether. The very Sat ?'.g:::;h';::?fi;' o e iar pow. | there, andl it explains many things” | whether such “control” Was meant in ; ; 2 : Ships of kngland have been making gictum of Gen. Grant, after his trip atmosphere of Washingion conduc Ay ally. = 3 : K . and jus | V. is| . SJugoslavia, Rumania, Turkey. Greece. ! gress : in Englian, ':‘fimde::ngnmmfi“l?xé ! : . : Sam e Ao e ter SLOUEN ;" In comparison with any European to be convoked to Washington! o naturally a —ad- ; T ministration. The Spaniards denied : : ” | e Taricer atiT elves London. —_ ! the public market still gives London. I that they had signed in this English| § ¥ : Add that London is the great com- o 9 sense, but the weight of the congress p B mercial power of Europe, having the S of Parls itself was against them, and | § greatest balance of trade, it increas- ashin ons amous TEES |]|=o. after ‘a money compensation to ’ % : es Ner greatness, but creates a fear. Spain, we were confirmed in the posi- & ¥ 2 How different is the situation of I tinn we since hold in the Philippines. ¢ e Bl | Washington—although New _York It was the first time in which ' may be the banking center of the French .as the diplomatic langaége B i ‘ world all you please. ::BDY some choon _gum, lady?” I'm proud to think I got off this easy, ’ ““B§ M all Hunter ¥ Mrs. Isabel Sewall H . Five way, - “Nobedy is afraid of Washington,” when so many w : 5 , omen younger than 1, l m.tl&..\..m. and people, there . : 2 el Duras. “But, over here -in Any amateur 3abbler in human | Z.00 00 AT, NORED 3 Fent alor e larod afid abowil R o B Europe, they lopk askancs, evan_at|nature could. have judged by the gium has declared and shownd by Geneva, chosen originally as the ci%¥ | woman's sllvery gray silk to match I'm" not to accidents, either! her acts that she identifies herself 8oy of the league of nations for the ver: 3 A y It's the first one that ever happened to The Ancient Gincko, |22 baacheyofine sincko st | poitielly Tnd montof sifomitiary | oo s e e e cotmtteane et tas | £, D Wyt s o X i 3 L . ¢ 2 ) union_Er y the league of na. way 1 got out of jt—" CIENTISTS tell us that the gincko | fronds Nearer, they aliw rudiments '{:e; have ;{lel;:m?rm:fl:le‘g!mfiz ¢ 4 tions has failed, it has been principal- ‘two, that she wasn't in the chewing-| She was so obviously primed for a ary side branches, short twigs few . ¢ : ) 113‘; o the side of Europe, by reason of | cum class, but, perhaps, the microbe [ boast that would last her ail her lite, “pronounced fincko—is the old- fary Washingto ter " disarm tru Jool er.” The leaves are fan-shaped, £ton conferance on’ disai i 1 = : havi est form of tree in existence; that [ BT Cer, The Leaves Bre B nthos| ment will find them standing to ; 2 : this struggle of the citles for 8u-| /'y y yno naited her possessed the | o ir upsid to Enon s ehe e it really belongs to a time when |the parallel veins lying so closely ‘%‘:l:i a has b forced tollook to $ 3 s < “Some groups wanted Brussels for|same sort of instinct that makes a|talking about picked up his bike and the pterodactyls, the flying lizards, {Packed as to resemble the ridges in AR eon ol 00! the league of nations, some Geneva,|yey), dog know & friend when he |then considered the other woman. She ow; smiled back and nodded with tender in- heavy grosgrain ribbon. The gincko | France. R 7 ; some The Hague, others different 2 Italy, according to the speach of : B F e i cities. And even when such innocents | Sé€s one. Anyhow: dulgence at the little old soul. And he ter of foreign affairs, ht? were agreed on the contro! of one He was very small, even for a|must have understood, for he grinned o é { like Gemeva by a predominant power | microbe, and the dirt with which he |With @ wideness that showed every were the only creatures to ‘l;ulgmulnn;“ is often called the “maiden-hair tree.”| 0% 0, branches and when the terrible lizards, | because these leaves do repeat in the dinosaurs, walked this earth. These |heavy, leathery, grosgrain material the g," ‘fllar]e ts h'd"m?] wn;. :hnu > shapes of the dainty, delicate “maiden- | France, in the main, and the two strange animals have perished, but the | patPe2 oF most ftand fogether. bot, as . he tree still survives. For thousands and | The frult of the gincko is something L R L : jbrovided " that the administrative|toes was of & character which Mr |b3e 0oy b 1 7 i like a persimmon in appearance. The unctions of the league, including|v. oAt was doubtless his first object lesson thousands of years the gincko has been up of the war and the observation “1 CoBRBN TR natass DIy Al et “;l“&‘{.‘ would have classified as “War- |, "y laughable, pathetic, ridiculous came to be dreaded. white tush in his mouth, and then whiz- | “SThe pact of Versailles” he says|Was Inlaid from bare head to bare|gzed on, with the old lady smiling good- lanted b % |outside’ flesh smells abominably, and P e (it s a religions. signific | for that reason cuttings from male( the Verssilles treaty, Italy must cated at Geneva, and that the judi- and splendid riddle we know as human e Elons: sten tand with England 3 stand with England. Ty mybtom e Tocarog MR tyne, Judl | uyou poor little dirty boy, why |nature. NANNIE LANCASTER. cance. Apparently, there is no place in | trees are much betteér liked for street Since that agreement the assemblyidon't you go down to the bathing Children of the Mesa. in various cities, according to the con- the whole world where it now grows | planting than the trees which bear hib RSN ild, though there are fossil remains In | frult. There is. however, after the|; ONDON has maturally the greatest has met twice at Geneva, but' the|pcacnr: s o i The microbe having reached out 2 i venience of the premiers!” package of gum in expectation of | HE home of the Oraibi branch of trade, drew it back. s Moqui Indians is a mesa 500 ; flesh has been taken Off, a thin< P o own “Potomac farmation . | she o) viae horizon on world politica of any “] ain’t got the time to. I gotta HAT Is it that fs making Wash- | work. feet high, upon which the old Indfans W 2 Well, if 1 give you a dime will you und in our own “Potomac formation.” | ehelled nut which the Chinese roast From China the gincko was introduced | slightly and eat at wedding feasts| city, because of her great empire ington the diplomatic center L e practice the snake dance and other of the world—and of Europe? B Tmer T wouldn't buy mo soap” _|favorite ceremoxies of the tribe. But into Japan with Buddhism in the fifth |and other social occasions, much as|wnich stretches —quite around the| Why, the necessity of things, both| She must have recognized honesty |it is probable that the coming genera- * x % % century B. C. and from Japan it came | we eat olives. As with olives, also, o America. When It was first intro- | perhaps the liking is an acquired| World. duced here there was o story rife that | taste, for some Americans at least| “The fact that her influence is 8o n order to have It grow successfully it | do not care for these “yin kuo,” silver | great and widespread and has be- Was necessary to bring with it and piant | nuts. e esiToiae o R e _’mm ita adopted | R e ® The branchas are feo|#pread since the war” says Mr. ? 5 B | ot and - imamament. Bresident | 10 the Tetusal, for she asked for rea- | tion, or perhaps the present one, will No other tree growing in the city of | few or too slender. sometimes both;| Duras. “makes diplomatic fear in Eu-| % " ! i Harding has had the great privilege| ~Oh, soap's all right, but I gotta|STOW out of these things. The white ;"’mhtlt;::rl.c‘ri :::2;:7:0;3: é::-{:::l'i . : . to make himself great in history by |fam'ly to s'port, an’ eats comes first— | man, with his schoolhouse and other nople is a present aggravation. No S 4 recognizing it, with tact; but events| I SERUSCE BRCICTIT | Ly ¢ o righe [USaSes of civilization, has found the European nation wants any other 2 % were pointing the way, in Europe| .t of woman she was, she handed | Young Indians and made friends of owerful European nation to have iy ainfully, in South America more Sontrol of that strategic pofit be- % 5 oy s E i i e tween Europe and Asia.” For _South America,” says Mr.{fne Change. Some years ago these Indians of the Duras, “Washington has become more | \'Sno seemed to know it would go to | mesa were considered hostile because convenient than London, Paris or|;ne fam-ly. they exhibited more opposition to the Geneva, as is shown by an amusing *x % influence of the whites than did tne 5 s other Moquis. en vi &N your articles in Sunday’s Star. | to build a schoolho l’.‘{‘x?.e"?.‘}‘l'i? “Around the City,’ I often see re- | the mesa and to place all the children quests for old songs. For this season in school, the parents stubbornly re- fused to permit it. But a house was 1 write you. I am anxious for the old | yyiit ang after long and persistent sopg ‘Piccadilly.’ Will you please tell] eyrort every child of proper age was me where I can get it? M. G. P. onrolled as a pupll, The Indians, wha *x % * had so vigorously opposed at firsi UDEAR Around City: I know I ought ::Cnme Jealous friends of the school London, too, has been the gold mar- S ket of the world; and, while the THE BELGIAN EMBASSY, weight of gold is now on our side (Photo by Harris & Ewing.) soon as they saw the resuits of it. not to bother you again, but, 'mhe enterprise has been very suc. though I am glad to get the words of cfiutnl}.‘ a:l-d now one may stand near ‘Lorena,’ which you were good enough | the =chool at 7 o'clock in the morn- e e, I am desirous of the|iNE and, looking up at the plateay rton weat 0’ three music stores, 500 feet above, see suddenly a curis e ous thing. Little children, looking but was not successful. Could you |, e little dolis, begin to appear over hel e find the music? Yours, Janie [, " sl oy ssdled = e comes into view behind another, and soon the face of the great rock is CHE was a survival of the era when :llve ‘."ltlil lh? it cre:;urel as lh‘:y 2 man could dle safe in the as- |descend, in singl€flle, the steep zig- 1 thy | surance that his relict would £o into | & Poll e U e crepe. and stay there. Apd on. her mesa and the school. The little folk face was the nervous exhilaration ot| seem to be hanging to the wall of the immense rock as they slowly descend the face of it. ey keep pourin {a recluse who gets downtown only |oier the edge at the top, and the once In #o often, bringing With her|Lead of the line has reached the — | school on the plain bélow before the | & hunger to sco all that s golng on—|school op the plain bélow | and more. When the straggling line comes Fate was in accommodating meod, | fully into view it is mearly half a for, just as she was reveling in the Imile long. A fanciful person might excitement of something ahead that|see in its convolutions on the path had gathered a human fringe around jsome resemblance to the movements it—Bump! And. there she was, being|of a snake, and think of it as the 1ifted from tie outer side of the curb snake dance with which the young by & boy who dealt out wisdom as he |Indians have replaced that of their brushed her off with his cap: grandfathers. t's Jucky I saw you in time to slow up enough to just graze you. If e 1 haader been on full speed youd be Origin of Gunpowder. on a stre er by e, ) Bave been. explainin’ to the police. | T"HE Chinese were long credited Honest, lady, you ought to ook where with the invention of gunpowder, Jou aré goin’, steppin on asphalt 1ike |put not long ago evidence was ad- that. This avenue aln't no churchgyceq to indicate that this is a mis- FRONDS OF THE ANCIENT GINCKO. : ’ S . ’ aisle, you know.” The old infant, dased, bu: tedly | take, and that the Arablans did not, b H 7 . canscious of wholé bones, let :erself|as commonly supposed, introduce gun- :::mx;r;gn [peeme & take such & great | but it is always graceful and abso- i s be cleaned up and scolded at until, by | powder into Europe during the cignth The young trees are tall and slender, re- “uv e isease ‘and insect i g " Bt 3 the time a second woman joined in!and ninth centuries. It is believed by minding one of & red cedar or Lombardy | * ot o . 4 ¢ it as second aid, excitement had coated | the most competent authorities now pop! There is a young tree on 14th | , I? China and Japan, where the name her wrinkles with girlish pink and|that the manufacture of the first gun- Btreet near New York avenue with ‘top |18 Dronounced with the hard g— o 58 g i Ruz a sparkle in her eyes that must|powder was based upon the “Fire Pranches drooping, eiving the sihouetts | Sincgo—there are magnificent old s i . - ; ave been blue before vandal decades | Book” of Marcus Graecus, which ap- effect of & hage soray of golden rod. | trees. One in Japan is sald to be a . 5 > i sE : | faded ‘them into the dullness that is|peared in Constantinople about the Other trees have limbs turned upward | thousand years old. The oldest in Ry i S i % . 2 Roast ¢ Father Time's national color. middle of the thirteenth century. This like candelabra, and, also like candela- | America is in Phitadeiphis, but the SRR e o8 W o S . " The boy, more scared of the two,|was the source from which Roger Ba- bra, the trees may be flat-topped as | best known American trees are here : % . Lo . because of the two he realized the|con, Albertus Magnus and Thomas well, while still others may be as round | In Washington—those on- 13th street ¢ 5 nd escape, excused himself | Aquinas derived- their knowledge of s maples. Perhaps the gincko, being |in front of the Agriculitural Depart. 1 woman: gunpowder. The first use of gu istoric ferns | ment building. There are some ninety{- 5 : est, i Ty fault—and the | powder to drive projectiles is as- trees, all well grown. Three of these # { 5 A & 1 cribed to a monk, Berthold Schwarts, ginckos in front of the Agricultural — - . . - . : But the old | whose discovery was made accident- partment are the ones shpwn in the] ., . = 3 v © . THB ERETIeE SR B e A ad rrupted. to allay his £ ally while preparing the mixture for